[R] How to do survival analysis with time-related IVs?

[David Winsemius]

"Tianxu" <tc332 at drexel.edu> wrote in
news:20080421012323.F06A311662F at smtp.mail.drexel.edu: 


> I am wondering how to do survival analysis with time-related IVs in
> R. For example,

See section 4 of Fox's contribution:

<http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/appendix-cox-regression.pdf>

<http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/cox-regression.txt>


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> 
> And then run logistic regression using "censor" as the DV? 
> 

I was initially unclear about why you were running logistic regression on 
"censor", but perhaps you are trying to assess the non-informative 
censoring assumption? The R function that immediately comes to mind 
is glm( ...., family=binomial). Hmisc package also has lrm(...) and 
associated summary and diagnostic functions.

-- 
David Winsemius